This PREP workshop was made possible by the NSF grant DUE: 0341481

From Prep08Wiki

I am Nancy Johnson. I've been teaching at Manatee Community College in Bradenton Florida for 18 years. That sounds so long. I taught high school math in Ohio and Texas and also taught developmental math at a private college in the hill country of Texas. Mathematics is my scholarly focus, but art and artistic pursuits are just part of my life. I enjoy tesselations and regularly teach my liberal arts students how to make simple tesselations which they then must decorate artisically. I keep my favorites. I am looking forward to exploring the connection between mathematics and mathematics more deeply. I will also be sharing what I learn with my colleagues. They wanted to enroll in the workshop, but could not becuase of their summer teaching schedule.

Some of my students allowed me to keep their tessellations over the years. Here is a small selection of their work: Debbie Pallaria: Faces or Ghosts?

Alicia Hammons "Bears in the colorful forest"

Karin Samac "Can't we Owl get along"

Heather Douville: "Shoes" Heather claimed she was not an artist!!!

Liz Ford-Coates "Geisha" Liz is an artist!!

and one of the first - Rob Clark's "Where's the fire?"